LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Feb. 24 - Recall politicians who steal funding; No place for outdated morals in society

Sunday, February 24, 2013

The recent article on some communities that are dipping into the Detroit Zoo funding for other projects tells exactly why nobody likes or trusts politicians anymore.

We the people voted to fund the Detroit Zoo with our taxes and the first thing that happens is some communities dip their hands into the funds.

We didn't vote for community beautification projects. We voted to fund the zoo. Why is this so hard for politicians to understand that? This is the same problem with Social Security and companies' pension. The money sitting there is just too great a temptation.

Please continue with these articles. I believe that any community's officials who take the funds should be recalled immediately.

We speak with our votes, but our politicians turn a deaf ear and continue to do as they wish with no regard for what's right.

In the future, when votes are cast, no one can trust that the monies will go where intended, and the proposals will fail, causing some institutions to go under because of a lack of public trust.

Politicians once again prove they wouldn't know the right thing to do if it smacked you in the face.

FRANK BOOTH

Oxford

The Feb. 6 letter writer of "Throughout the years moral principles wither," complained about "dumbing down eternal moral principles," while he practices it.

He blames the sexual behavior of strangers -- the scary and faceless "homosexuals" -- as the cause of America's social problems. He never looks to himself as a cause. The practice of blame and scapegoating is contrary to eternal moral principles. So is the false assumption that morality is primarily a matter of sex.

It's true that America has a problem with immorality, but not because of sex. With a woman caught in adultery, Jesus taught that it was immoral to focus on sexual misconduct rather than on forgiveness. He taught that morality requires positive action to feed the hungry, clothe the naked and help the sick and imprisoned. America would be better off if we applied this moral standard. It's a lot easier and more convenient to blame someone else's sexual practices.

Homosexuality was once considered a sin. So was interracial marriage.

Homosexuality was once considered a sickness or a deviant behavior.

So was left-handedness.

Ignoring scientific truth is not moral; it is ignorance. The moral principle of honesty requires adjustments in dogma. It would be immoral to try to cast out the demon of infection rather than giving an anti-biotic.

The writer falsely claims that removing homosexuality from the list of mental illnesses was because it was judged "too harsh." He repeatedly claims that "harshness" or kindness had something to do with scientific discoveries. That claim is false. Spreading falsehood is contrary to eternal moral principles.

He also falsely claims that "there is no judgment" and all discrimination is now magically gone. Nonetheless, those whining homosexuals still have the nerve to complain.

In the real-world Michigan, LGBT people are still criminalized, can be fired without recourse, get arrested without probable cause, are stigmatized, denied the right to marry and continue to be blamed for problems with heterosexual divorce, heterosexual unwed mothers, heterosexual abortions and what heterosexuals teach their children.